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Edingtonite :: Edingtonite (n.) A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta..

Stood :: Stony (superl.) Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze..

Appoggiatura :: Appoggiatura (n.) A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony..

Tonality :: Tonality (n.) The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole..

Palmitone :: Palmitone (n.) The ketone of palmitic acid.

Play :: Play (n.) Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action..

Button :: Button (n.) A bud; a germ of a plant.

Boaster :: Boaster (n.) A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.

Perpent Stone :: Perpent stone () See Perpender.

Diazeutic :: Diazeutic (a.) Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth..

Cant :: Cant (v. i.) To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone..

Chert :: Chert (n.) An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color..

Chare :: Chare (v. t.) To work or hew, as stone..

Warpage :: Warpage (n.) The act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors..

Lick :: Lick (v.) A stroke of the tongue in licking.

Exalt :: Exalt (v. t.) To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument..

Calyon :: Calyon (n.) Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc..

Swinesty :: Swinestone (n.) See Stinkstone.

Ephod :: Ephod (n.) A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front..

Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture..

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